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From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Bath file progamming
Keywords: bat, batch
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Date: 12 Mar 91 01:34:15 GMT
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neil@ms.uky.edu (Neil Greene) writes:

>I have a batch file I would like to write for our local network.  

>The outline is something like this:
>	
>	setup necessary variables specific to machine_name
>	: login 			/*label:  attempt to login to server */
>		get user_name and password
>		if %error_level% is ok,  go to resources	
>		if %error_level% ~ok, issue error and attempt to login again
>	: resources
>		grab network resources
>		check user mail	

>My problem is this, everything is fine logicly, and would be great, BUT batch
>files cannot trace BACKWARDS.  How can I implement this using a batch file and
>allow this type of error checking?

What do you mean "batch files cannot trace BACKWARDS" ?  Are you saying
that you don't think you can goto a label preceding the current position
in a DOS batch file?  If so, you should try it sometime...